diff -ruN src/trackerd/trackerd.c src/trackerd/trackerd.c
--- src/trackerd/trackerd.c	2006-08-26 13:59:23.000000000 +0200
+++ src/trackerd/trackerd.c	2006-08-27 05:22:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #define I_AM_MAIN 
 
 #include "config.h"
+#include <locale.h>
 #include <stdarg.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
@@ -1737,13 +1738,14 @@
 	char 		*prefix, *lock_file, *str, *lock_str, *tracker_data_dir;
 
 
-
 	gboolean 	need_setup = FALSE;
 	DBConnection 	*db_con;
+
 	
+	setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
 
 	/* set timezone info */
-	tzset();
+	tzset ();
 
 	g_print ("\n\nTracker version %s Copyright (c) 2005-2006 by Jamie McCracken (jamiemcc gnome org)\n\n", TRACKER_VERSION);
 	g_print ("This program is free software and comes without any warranty.\nIt is licensed under version 2 of the General Public License which can be viewed at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt\n\n");